Spinning-mule



(No Model.)

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SPINNING MULE.

Patented May 23, 1893.

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(No Model.)

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Patented May 23, 1893.

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JAMES BURNS, OF OTTER RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS.

SPINNINQ-MULE.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 498,105, dated May 23, 1893. Application filed January 3, 1893. Serial No. 457,0 16. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES BURNS, of Otter River, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spinning-Mules, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to the winding-on motion of spinning mules, which effects and regulates the Winding of the yarns or threads on the spindles as the carriage runs in, and the particular part of such mechanism upon which the improvements have been wrought is that connected with the screw in the quadrant or sector which governs the tension upon the thread or yarn. 7

It is the object of the invention to provide such improvements in the means for actuating the screw as will enable the spinner to operate the same from any point along the length of the mule or jack, so as to render it unnecessary to go to the head each time that it is desired to change the tension of the winding-on means. I

To this end my invention consists of a band or cord pulley or equivalent means properly supported and connected by gearing or other suitable means with the screw of the quadrantor sector, and a cord or band connected with or passed about the said pulley or other gearing actuating means,.andextending up and along the entire length of the carriage, so that wherever the spinner may be, at the head or on either side thereof, he may, by taking hold of the said cord or band, draw upon the same, and operate the screw the same as though the latter were turned by the commonly-employed crarili on the upper end thereof, all as I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Reference is to be had to the annexed drawings, and to the letters marked thereon, forming a part of this specification, the same letters designating the same parts or features, as the case maybe, wherever they occur.

Of the drawings-Figure 1, is'a front view of so much of a spinning mule as it is necessary to show in order to explain the invention. Fig. 2, is a sectional side view of a part of the same, showing the quadrant screw and its immediately connected parts equipped with the improvements. Fig. 3, is a sectional detail view, hereinafter more particularly described. Fig. 4, is a-view of a modification.

In the drawings a designates the headstock or main frame.

I) is the mule carriage, carrying the spindles c, and adapted to run out and in to and from the rolls d, the customary wheels traveling upon a railway in the ordinary manner being provided in efieoting this operation of the carriage. It maybe said that the carriage and the head are of the ordinary construction, and operate in the usual manner excepting as to the means for regulating or governing the tension of the winding-on of the threads or yarns, as before mentioned.

e is the quadrant or sector in which the screw f is supported in the usual way.

g is the winding-on chain, one end of which is attached to the floor of the room or the frame of the machine, and which passes around a pulley connected with the not it on the screwf, the other end of which chain is connected with the winding-on drumi of the carriage, or one end of the chain may be directly connected to the nut hand the other to the winding-on drum.

On the lower end ofthe screw f is affixed a miter gear j which is engaged by a like gear is compounded or connected with a band or cord pulley l which may run loose upon a shaft m.

n is a band or cord which passes around or about the pulley Z, and extends up and along the carriage on both sides of the head, being supported and guided by pulleys 0, so that the spinner Wherever he may be along the carriage may draw upon the said band or cord 4?. and operate the screw f through the medium of the pulley Z and the gears j and k. The band or cord is shown as endless and extending above the carriage and supported from the ceiling, but it 'is obvious that any other arrangement of the cord so that it might be reached from any point along the carriage would come within the scope of my invention.

In Fig. 4 I have shown a slightly modified form of part of my improved means. In this instance the pulley Z is replaced with a ratchet wheel Z and a leverp hung'on the shaft with which the ratchet wheel is connected is provided with a spring-pressed pawl (1 which is adapted to engage the ratchet wheel. The ends of the band or cord at are connected to the free end of the said lever so that by pulling upon the cord the screw f may be turned through the medium of the lever, the pawl, and the ratchet mentioned.

By the means described, the screw of the quadrant may be acted upon and operated at any time and to any extent desired, without the necessity of going to the mule-head for the purpose, and so much time may be saved and inconvenience avoided.

Having thus described the invention, I declare that what I claim is- 1. The combination, with the screw of a spinning-mule quadrant, of gearing connected therewith, gearing actuating means, and a cord or band connected with the said means and extending along the length of the carriage, as set forth.

2. The combination, with the screw of a Spinning-mule quadrant, of gearing connected therewith, a pulley for actuating said gearing, and a cord or band passing about the said pulley, and along the length of the carriage,

as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 3d day of December, A. D. 1892.

JAMES BURNS.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR W. CROSSLEY, HERBERT A. HALL. 

